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- Summary: This is the first album in over three years (and first for new US label Emperor Norton) for the all-girl Japanese indie-electronic-rock-pop outfit. Money Mark and John McEntire make appearances here, although Cornelius does not.
- Record Label: Emperor Norton
- Genre(s): Indie, Rock, Electronic
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Positive: 3 out of 8
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Mixed: 5 out of 8
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If you set the more gratuitous avant-gardities aside, you're left with a fair amount of haunting, beautiful and challenging music.
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MagnetOn a very small and exclusive CD rack, you'd file I snugly between the recent albums by Air and Cornelius. [#53, p.72]
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Buffalo Daughter produce exceptional-sounding tracks that cover a wide spectrum of genres, texture and mood; they perform well on a variety of instruments, and their voices blend nicely most of the time. But they don't write great songs-- too often, they don't even write good ones.
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The group tries so hard to be clever and cutting-edge that it detracts from the album's strengths.
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Alternative PressBuffalo Daughter seem more concerned with emulating others than with creating their own niche. [Apr 2002, p.66]
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Q MagazineThere's much daftness along the way. [Aug 2002, p.121]
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The work is unfocused and sounds as if Buffalo Daughter is trying to be novel.